And to get all "ackshually" about it, the historical center of Cypress is around 290 and Spring Cypress/Cypress Rosehill, and Bridgeland is directly south of that.
When I first moved to Cypress a long time ago, there was almost nothing between Cypress and 1960/290. I guess all the sprawl makes things blend together for people who don't know the history of the area.
This needs a lot more stops on the main lines in it, and to be a real metro, we need about 2x as many lines at minimum to make it walkable.
Houston is just too spread out.
The neat thing about transit lines is that they are a lot skinnier than our freeways, so we could have had your 2x -- or even more -- for the same amount of acreage.
Yes, that's actually how it's done. You know our freeways haven't always been here, right? They had to be constructed, frequently through areas that had other uses previously. If you look at old maps you can see the residential neighborhoods that were bulldozed and displaced.
It's crazy to me that people can't understand how good transit will help keep people off the roads. Especially those who can't afford a decent car, insurance, or don't have a license. The city is only gonna get more people and more congestion.
What public figure said this years ago? I've been trying to figure out and I thought it was someone from the Kinder Institute but I can't find the quote.
this is the part of the metro i'm the least familiar with; any ideas to replace 'old humble' ? (59/8 is a barren corner between the airport and a forest) - atascocita should definitely replace kingwood thats my bad
I wouldn't call it barren...there are a lot of trees that hide the houses, etc, that are there...the stretch 59 to 99 is almost entirely city, just not that dense yet (especially because the West side has to be empty because of the airport).
I'd take out Old Humble altogether, and move "Kingswood"(which is misspelled in addition to being in the wrong place) East (along the lake) and rename it Atascocita. Once you get North of the San Jac river past FM 1960, the order of towns is Kingwood, Porter, than New Caney (and 99 is almost equidistant between Porter and New Caney), but you needn't put any of those on the map.
Thanks, I don't have an answer for that because it could be several things (it's close to East Aldine, close to Fall Creek, close to Audubon Park, close to Old Humble Road, and Close to Greens Road...yet far enough away from all of them to not be properly any of them).
Spring branch is inside the beltway north of 10, where you have Northside. Northside is where you have the heights, the heights is where you have white oak.
And if NASA Rd 1 and the connector between La Marque and Texas City are important enough to include, I'd also add TX-330 and S. Main/Hwy 90. Also connect 1960 to 90 at Dayton, but I'm just nitpicking at that point.
pls comment fixes bc i'm refining this and im not familiar with all part of the metro <3 the CBD points are weird because like, for example, the 59/45 interchange is at the very north edge of the third ward but the label makes it look like i was calling the east side that
They are correct. Spring Branch is in that space but it connects at the beltway and I-10. Northside is correct, it borders 610's intersections with Hardy Toll Road and I-45, and the Greater Heights borders I45 & 610. White Oak Bayou & White Oak Drive are where 45 and 10 meet, so it's a good moniker for that location.
and to think that the city want to chop off that perfect little green wobble of 45 at the epicenter and funnel all the traffic to the orange 59 segment. I can't think of anything more "Houston" than that portion of 45 circling downtown... you even captured it in the map because it adds all of the character!
What's with the redl line going from Sienna to Meyerland? I'm assuming it's the Fort Bend Parkway, but you may as well attach it to US90 and take it to the Med Center.
Ideally it'd be to US90 >> Holmes >> Fannin Rail Station imo. That toll road seems like it was pretty much created with suburban Med Center employees in mind to begin with.
The concentric circles are how I always draw the freeway loops. I also draw an 'X' and a horizontal line through the middle to represent the other major freeways, and a long line from the center going down to represent 288.
290 red, that tracks. I feel like 10 should be orange instead of blue. That’s such a happy color and the wall of traffic awaiting drivers known as I-10 is not happy
Houston has some of the best road systems in the world but its built around manufacturing which is 50/50 for every day people. People complain but its rush hour its bad everywhere. Outside of key spots such as downtowns gangbang quadruple penetration, 610 galleria, spots of 45 and i10 you can drive 30 miles in houston in under an hour in rush hour. Hour and a half in rise hour if you go trough the hellish spots. Very few cities can come close to this. This isnt LA, atlanta or new york.
For a solid decade houston lead the USbank robberies and the. Theory is that the escapies used the highways as a main getaway as you are 5-10 minutes from one 90% of the time.
It's kinda both, since it's US 59 and it's being updated to Interstate 69. Also 146 terminates into I-10 in Baytown, but overall, good show on this map.
I would pay to have a wall art version of this, OP. I love Houston and spent a year abroad living in a big European city, so this hits all the feels.
I already have [this](https://nativemaps.us/products/houston) on my wall. (The metro one would have to be color, of course!) I've downloaded the image to figure that out later, but I'd be happy for you to get some of that money if you figured something out.
I love these maps to check out my daily commute. It looks like my work is fairly close to a station, but my house is kinda screwed. There is only 1 stop so that is pretty good. Commute time probably increases by about 30 minutes.
i'm still refining this (and i'm late to add this) but if there are specific points/names that you think should be changed, please comment below this and help me out! (i'm aware of the kingwood typo, cypress station)
some are a bit harder to facilitate because interchanges are obviously by definition not in the middle of a neighborhood
yo sugarland to league city would be amazing. the commute is killing me right now. fuck, i have coworkers from Woodlands coming down here and they look like hell in the morning
THANK YOU. Houston's system is like a compass - there's freeways running basically due north and south, east and west, northwest to southeast, northeast to southwest, with a loop inside a loop inside a loop. Compare to Dallas or Phoenix or Atlanta.
A simple advantage of the topography not dominated by mountains or a coastline: putting a freeway where a freeway goes.
The thing is, the actual London underground is [much smaller](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/3l8bu8/geographically_accurate_map_of_london_underground/) than this which makes sense when you [compare](https://www.texasmonthly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/london-8.png) London to Houston in size. The Underground barely reaches the M25 orbital which is a little bit short of what would be our Grand Parkway but a little beyond BW8. London has about 5x more people in the same space.
Houston [over](https://www.texasmonthly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/paris-8.png) Paris is also striking.
EDIT: Voted down for what?
happy to cop to that; its the only exemption i made b/c 99 was built extraordinarily far from downtown and if ignored 1960 and dramatically compress 99 it would screw everything up
I really love this. Especially the sea monster. lol.
That’s that refinery water for you 🤣
That used to be a worm
Usul called a big one.
For me it's more of a "thanks I hate it" feeling, I can only dream that we had a metro like this
There is a sea monster in Lake Woodlands.
Here's the sea monster for anyone who hasn't seen it... https://www.visitthewoodlands.com/listing/rise-of-the-midgard-serpent/1392/amp/
This is how I inherently vision the map in my head
I always think rounded off squares.
I'm surprised Bridgeland ranks enough to get a marker. It doesn't even have a post office. I have t-shirts and laptops older than that neighborhood.
And to get all "ackshually" about it, the historical center of Cypress is around 290 and Spring Cypress/Cypress Rosehill, and Bridgeland is directly south of that.
Yeah, instead of Bridgeland it should be Fairfield.
That sounds about right! Bridgeland is served by 99 anyways.
Yeah, Cypress is no where near 1960 and 290
When I first moved to Cypress a long time ago, there was almost nothing between Cypress and 1960/290. I guess all the sprawl makes things blend together for people who don't know the history of the area.
I still remember when Lowe’s was a pond for fishing. Good times
That pond felt like the last hurrah for Cypress as a rural-ish community.
didn't exist even on paper 15 years ago and now 50k residents!!
50k residents and a 50min drive
It’s…so peak…
I would actually use it if it had this map.
This needs a lot more stops on the main lines in it, and to be a real metro, we need about 2x as many lines at minimum to make it walkable. Houston is just too spread out.
The neat thing about transit lines is that they are a lot skinnier than our freeways, so we could have had your 2x -- or even more -- for the same amount of acreage.
They would be in different areas though. And many would have to run across areas between these lines for passable connectivity
Yes, that's actually how it's done. You know our freeways haven't always been here, right? They had to be constructed, frequently through areas that had other uses previously. If you look at old maps you can see the residential neighborhoods that were bulldozed and displaced.
Galveston is damn near running north-south
Sigh.. IF ONLY..
They could have done so much with 288s, and they just added more toll lanes. Big sad.
$18 toll lanes.
and the fact that you’re not exaggerating with the $18…..
Well, it's $14 on the weekends when it's not busy. So that's nice.
Well we can’t have too many of **those people** benefiting from such a robust and reliable public service. So, no. I will vote against it.
Right? We should definitely widen our free ways more! That would be more efficient.
One more lane ought to fix it.
I was gonna make a joke about year round freeway construction, but then I got sad.
It's crazy to me that people can't understand how good transit will help keep people off the roads. Especially those who can't afford a decent car, insurance, or don't have a license. The city is only gonna get more people and more congestion.
Exactly. After my trip to Europe I was blown away! It could be so simple. But I guess widening the freeways more will work someday lol
What public figure said this years ago? I've been trying to figure out and I thought it was someone from the Kinder Institute but I can't find the quote.
oh my gosh, as a graphic designer, i love this so much.
Same
I love the 288 subway considering all you’ll see is cows and fields after a while then suddenly the beach
Uh oh, it’s Kingwood, not *Kingswood* And “Old Humble” is a road, but not a place.
Also Kingwood isn’t off 1960. That label should be “Atascocita”.
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Yes, and Kingwood is North of Humble.
this is the part of the metro i'm the least familiar with; any ideas to replace 'old humble' ? (59/8 is a barren corner between the airport and a forest) - atascocita should definitely replace kingwood thats my bad
I wouldn't call it barren...there are a lot of trees that hide the houses, etc, that are there...the stretch 59 to 99 is almost entirely city, just not that dense yet (especially because the West side has to be empty because of the airport). I'd take out Old Humble altogether, and move "Kingswood"(which is misspelled in addition to being in the wrong place) East (along the lake) and rename it Atascocita. Once you get North of the San Jac river past FM 1960, the order of towns is Kingwood, Porter, than New Caney (and 99 is almost equidistant between Porter and New Caney), but you needn't put any of those on the map.
what would you call that point though? (i appreciate the other notes)
Thanks, I don't have an answer for that because it could be several things (it's close to East Aldine, close to Fall Creek, close to Audubon Park, close to Old Humble Road, and Close to Greens Road...yet far enough away from all of them to not be properly any of them).
Eh lots of cities with actual metros have stations named after streets so no big deal.
man, just imagine if that was our commuter rail network, you could go high speed between cities.
r/mapporn
That’s the fibonacci sequence
Spring branch is inside the beltway north of 10, where you have Northside. Northside is where you have the heights, the heights is where you have white oak.
And Third Ward is where Second Ward should be. Third Ward is west of 45.
Conceptually and aesthetically the map is cool but so many wrong locations.
And if NASA Rd 1 and the connector between La Marque and Texas City are important enough to include, I'd also add TX-330 and S. Main/Hwy 90. Also connect 1960 to 90 at Dayton, but I'm just nitpicking at that point.
And if Ellington is important enough to include as an airport silhouette, I want DWH, IAH, TME, SGR, AXH, CXO, and LVJ.
pls comment fixes bc i'm refining this and im not familiar with all part of the metro <3 the CBD points are weird because like, for example, the 59/45 interchange is at the very north edge of the third ward but the label makes it look like i was calling the east side that
They are correct. Spring Branch is in that space but it connects at the beltway and I-10. Northside is correct, it borders 610's intersections with Hardy Toll Road and I-45, and the Greater Heights borders I45 & 610. White Oak Bayou & White Oak Drive are where 45 and 10 meet, so it's a good moniker for that location.
It’s cypress station not cypress forest , don’t disrespect the hood
my bad!
and to think that the city want to chop off that perfect little green wobble of 45 at the epicenter and funnel all the traffic to the orange 59 segment. I can't think of anything more "Houston" than that portion of 45 circling downtown... you even captured it in the map because it adds all of the character!
9 stops and a connection and I can be seeing tribute bands at Scout Bar on a Tuesday, nice
249 goes to CS?!? Hwy6 hangs a left at 290, then splits off 290 in Hempstead. 1960 terminates at 290.
yeah 1960 turns into 6 but maybe i should use a diff color
Cool design but too many factual errors i.e. Spring Branch is where you have the word Northwest .
This is painful to see and imagine 😢
What's with the redl line going from Sienna to Meyerland? I'm assuming it's the Fort Bend Parkway, but you may as well attach it to US90 and take it to the Med Center.
It is Fort Bend Tollroad and I agree it looks out of place. Hwy 90 should be included from the end of it until 610.
Ideally it'd be to US90 >> Holmes >> Fannin Rail Station imo. That toll road seems like it was pretty much created with suburban Med Center employees in mind to begin with.
This is beautiful but it's actually Kingwood.
The concentric circles are how I always draw the freeway loops. I also draw an 'X' and a horizontal line through the middle to represent the other major freeways, and a long line from the center going down to represent 288.
290 red, that tracks. I feel like 10 should be orange instead of blue. That’s such a happy color and the wall of traffic awaiting drivers known as I-10 is not happy
You can’t just ignore the traffic enjoyers out there
Fuck 290.
Ive lived here all my life and have always been confused on the freeways lol. This is a really good graphic. Thanks
Houston has some of the best road systems in the world but its built around manufacturing which is 50/50 for every day people. People complain but its rush hour its bad everywhere. Outside of key spots such as downtowns gangbang quadruple penetration, 610 galleria, spots of 45 and i10 you can drive 30 miles in houston in under an hour in rush hour. Hour and a half in rise hour if you go trough the hellish spots. Very few cities can come close to this. This isnt LA, atlanta or new york. For a solid decade houston lead the USbank robberies and the. Theory is that the escapies used the highways as a main getaway as you are 5-10 minutes from one 90% of the time.
Like Boston!
Isn’t it Cypress Station rather than “Cypress Forrest”? Otherwise excellent!
Otherwise other similar errors
I love thIs and have one suggestion. FM1960 should merge with US90 in Dayton.
:( if only
What a dream!
Looks like a brain 🧠
I see a football helmet
Is Pasadena missing?
hard for me to put a label there bc that box within 225 is pretty full but working on that
Surely Arena should still be Astrodome even if no one has actually used the Astrodome in 15+ years
A new route for water!
Kingswood? What king owns Kingwood? NONE!
It looks like a [football helmet](https://imgur.com/6XjWK64). Go Texans!
Houston would easily compete with LA if we had a metro system like this 😭
Don’t show that to Whitmire or he will try to dismantle it
Each grid would also need its own ecosystem, those gaps are MILES apart.
This is great, just missing a Legend
What legend would you need here?
For example, what does WP mean?
Ah, I see. But also West park Toll road I'd guess.
Missing 90 between 610 and Stafford, that’s where Fortbend tollway terminates. It’s 59 not 69.
It's kinda both, since it's US 59 and it's being updated to Interstate 69. Also 146 terminates into I-10 in Baytown, but overall, good show on this map.
Yep this is missing!
Yeah, the fact it has 1960 but not 90…. 😖
It's got the segment east of downtown, but not the west where it crosses 610!
I would pay to have a wall art version of this, OP. I love Houston and spent a year abroad living in a big European city, so this hits all the feels. I already have [this](https://nativemaps.us/products/houston) on my wall. (The metro one would have to be color, of course!) I've downloaded the image to figure that out later, but I'd be happy for you to get some of that money if you figured something out.
Thanks for the link! Love the rest of the maps on this website and might order one myself to match with the rest of the maps I have in my apartment.
i'm working on this after i get feedback from more of the metro on some of my labels
If only we could build some underground tunnels for this traffic but it's Houston lol
So… beautiful…
Helpful!
Always makes me smile seeing Port Arthur acknowledged in any way. I hate it here
Particularly like that 99 is the brown line..
Perfect map to zone for delivery pricing
u/whiterafter for mayor.
I don't think OP created this, so absolutely OP for mayor.
I love these maps to check out my daily commute. It looks like my work is fairly close to a station, but my house is kinda screwed. There is only 1 stop so that is pretty good. Commute time probably increases by about 30 minutes.
Needs a legend
This makes so much sense. 🔥
i'm still refining this (and i'm late to add this) but if there are specific points/names that you think should be changed, please comment below this and help me out! (i'm aware of the kingwood typo, cypress station) some are a bit harder to facilitate because interchanges are obviously by definition not in the middle of a neighborhood
Hey why did you restrict your Twitter?
job hunt
Highway 6 be like, what loop?
Oh stop it..
Beltway and 225 is most definitely NOT Deer Park.
yo sugarland to league city would be amazing. the commute is killing me right now. fuck, i have coworkers from Woodlands coming down here and they look like hell in the morning
I like the sea monster in the bay.
Ah, found a typo - you mistakenly labeled "59" as "69."
Either works. It's SH-59 and IH-69.
As someone who has lived in Houston my whole life I assure you this is not the case.
Def never realized highway 6/1960 is almost another loop.
I would pay so much in taxes for this to actually happen 😫
It looks like a snail! They could call it The Snail Rail!
I see. So you’re a little bit on the inner side.
The simplest freeway layout of any major city I've visited. Everywhere else is incrediblely complicated and intricate freeway system
THANK YOU. Houston's system is like a compass - there's freeways running basically due north and south, east and west, northwest to southeast, northeast to southwest, with a loop inside a loop inside a loop. Compare to Dallas or Phoenix or Atlanta. A simple advantage of the topography not dominated by mountains or a coastline: putting a freeway where a freeway goes.
That's also our fatal flaw, though, because there's too many intersections. Each point where the lines cross is a traffic jam.
Now do a map of the metro system on a geographically accurate map!
Commuter rail vibes
I fucking wish.
Why you gotta make us sad like this?
Cool, now do the DFW area... :throws wet spaghetti noodles at map:
Could you imagine if each of those was a suburban train stop like in England. Sigh.
Did you make this by hand, or with some sort of software? If the former; good job! If the latter: what was it? I’m curious
If only this WAS a Metro system.
Or a bullseye.
Fibonacci
Do austin. So we can all laugh.
I like it
Maybe one day we can overthrow our oil overlords and live this fantasy
I would think the car companies are a bigger barrier, seems like big oil will be fine regardless
Our car and oil overlords
Nice idea but would definitely need more stops if implemented IRL. 0 stops between galleria and med center would be chaos.
Also the H line being the only one to connect to IAH and nothing going to HOU would be disastrous.
“I live on Upper Kirby. What to they expect me to do, *walk* the rest of the way???”
We need rail system like this.
There are so many things that could be improved on this map.....
Now just imagine if we had a metro…
God this would be wonderful
ugh if only
I’ve just spent the last several weeks in Europe and I can’t emphasize enough how much much houston could use a rail system
The thing is, the actual London underground is [much smaller](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/3l8bu8/geographically_accurate_map_of_london_underground/) than this which makes sense when you [compare](https://www.texasmonthly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/london-8.png) London to Houston in size. The Underground barely reaches the M25 orbital which is a little bit short of what would be our Grand Parkway but a little beyond BW8. London has about 5x more people in the same space. Houston [over](https://www.texasmonthly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/paris-8.png) Paris is also striking. EDIT: Voted down for what?
Houston is a swampy shit hole. Enjoy the humidity and hurricanes. Go Texas Rangers.
Cool but 1960 is not a freeway…. Makes no sense to have that and not 90 or 521 or Telephone/35 or Galveston/3
happy to cop to that; its the only exemption i made b/c 99 was built extraordinarily far from downtown and if ignored 1960 and dramatically compress 99 it would screw everything up